I am pleased to announce the official 2026 English edition of my doctoral dissertation, Predicting the Success of Technology Startups: Models, Empirical Evidence, and Software Tools.
This 187-page work brings together a methodology for predicting startup success, theoretical and empirically tested models, evidence from the Bulgarian entrepreneurial ecosystem, and the I3SP software tool that implements the approach. The study includes qualitative research and quantitative analysis of data from 136 companies, factor analysis, and classification models developed with IBM SPSS Modeler and Weka.
The underlying research was conducted and submitted in Bulgarian in 2015. This English edition presents the original work to an international audience; it is not a new study undertaken in 2026. The translation was prepared with AI assistance and reviewed and edited by me.
Download the official English edition (PDF, 45 MB).
Read the original Bulgarian publication and download the Bulgarian paper.